100 UUCKLAND NEWTON PARISH REGISTER. 



"NVith all his care John Phillipps did not literally obey the 

 injunction in a most important particular viz., in regard to the 

 order that the new books should be of parchment. One other 

 order was, however, scrupulously fulfilled viz., " Postquam autem 

 paginam aliquam integram multorum nominum inscriptio comple- 

 verit, turn ministri, turn gardianorum ipsius parochaei subscriptionib' 

 volumus cam communiri;" and so, until 1624, occurs the yearly 

 addition of the names of the Vicar and Churchwardens, " testibus 

 de veritate prsemissorum." 



Turning now to the general contents of this interesting volume, 

 I will endeavour to point out what are the chief matters of value 

 which it presents to our notice. It would be tedious to dwell on 

 the present occasion upon the lists of baptisms, marriages, and 

 burials, invaluable as they are to the genealogical student, which 

 constitute the larger portion of a parish register, and it will be 

 sufficient to mention that the volume before us is rich in entries of 

 the Arnolds, Sacheverells, Barneses, Tawswells, Dunnings, Foys, 

 the ancestors of John Locke, the philosopher, and others, who held 

 property here during the period covered by the Register. Many 

 of these are already printed in the third edition of Hutchins' 

 "History of Dorset." 



The Benefice of Buckland Xewton is a Vicarage, and the Great 

 Tithes were, for a considerable period, in the hands of the Dean 

 and Chapter of Wells. How the profits of the tithes were realized 

 by the owner becomes apparent by the following entry : 1573, 

 March 27th, " William Bond generosus, firmarius Rectorie de 

 Buckland," was buried. So the tithes were farmed or rented by a 

 gentleman, a leaseholder, as Hutchins' history tells us, who resided 

 on the spot, and made a living out of them, beyond what he paid to 

 the appropriates The name of Robert Hide, armiger, " firmarius 

 Rectorie de Buckland," occurs in 1597. 



Under the year 1603 is entered in the Register a document of 

 some historical interest, being 



"i&hc trCW topic Of a proclamacon solemnelie and publiquelie 

 proclaimed at the high crosse in Dorchester the xxixth day of 



